Setting Industry Standards- -2013 IW Best Plants Winners

For the 24th consecutive year, IndustryWeek is pleased to announce the winners of the annual IW Best Plants competition, our salute to manufacturing excellence across North America.

These companies are delivering remarkable results. And they are doing so in the face of intense global competition, increasing cost pressures and ever-more-demanding customers. They are doing so even as the bar is raised for what defines excellence.

For the first time in several years, all of the IW Best Plants are located in the United States and they span the continent, from Flextronics on the West Coast to H.C. Starck in the east. Pennsylvania plays host to the greatest number of winners, with both Harley-Davidson Motor Co. and Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control located in the Keystone State.